Pooing for Britain!

We are now in week 3 of around 6 poos per day. LG is 5 months old (22 weeks). She is so happy. No apparent problems with wind or tummy pains. Not being sick or problems feeding. It's just the vast amount of poo she's producing! And often explosive. Constant dioreah. It often wakes her in the night although not always as she's a good little sleeper. Anyway I've spoken to the health visitor and the GP and neither seem worried as no other accompanying symptoms. We haven't introduced solids yet or changed formula. We're very careful with hygiene and no bugs in the family. Even if it was a bug surely it should have passed after 3 weeks! Anyway GP said wait another couple of weeks and if problems persist I'll take a sample in. Does anyone have any idea what this could be?

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I have just made a similar post about this as we have had similar issues and it’s been anything between 6-10 poos a day and I took her to gp and he asked me to bring in a sample to rule out infection and he seemed to think she has a cows milk protein allergy 😐x

I spoke about possible intolerance with HV (Health Visitor) and GP and both said very unlikely as she had no symptoms at all until recently. Apparently an intolerance will be clear almost immediately but certainly before 12 weeks. She had absolutely no problems before recently apart from mild reflux

This is so strange as exactly the same thing has been happening with my little boy. He’s happy and find in himself but so many poos, he’s been doing about 5 a day for over a week now and he’s only been doing 1 every other day before that. I’ve recently been on antibiotics and thought it may be to do with that but I’ve stopped them for a week now. I’m putting it down to teething but if it’s still happening on Monday I was going to take him to the doctors!

My little girl is going through the same thing. She’s such a happy, content little girl but is having around 5 diarrhoea nappies a day and it’s been going on for 2 weeks now. Went to the doctors and they asked for a sample to be sent off, did this Friday so will get the results Monday. I thought it was teething but the doctor didn’t seem to think it would last this long and be so constant? Reassuring to know there are other babies of similar age having the same thing. Hope all your little babies get through this soon! xx

Two days after our lb had his third set of jabs he started producing loose dirty nappies, I counted as previously he’d been going every 48 hours or so in between, he reached 20 in 24 hours, after two days I phoned the health visitor and she said if it made me feel better to see gp as it was during the really hot spell and they didn’t want him getting dehydrated. I decided to take him and they checked him over and he was fine in himself but to bring in a sample the next day. Two days later I got a call from them to ask some more questions because it turned out he had a strain of food-poisoning. Don’t know how as he was only 17 weeks at the time an ebf. They said keep an eye on him but by that time his nappies had calmed down.

My little girl is going through the same thing. She’s such a happy, content...

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11/08/2018

My little girl is going through the same thing. She’s such a happy, content little girl but is having around 5 diarrhoea nappies a day and it’s been going on for 2 weeks now. Went to the doctors and they asked for a sample to be sent off, did this Friday so will get the results Monday. I thought it was teething but the doctor didn’t seem to think it would last this long and be so constant? Reassuring to know there are other babies of similar age having the same thing. Hope all your little babies get through this soon! xx

Will be interesting to hear what the sample results are if you don't mind sharing. x

I’m not saying this is it however:
Two days after our lb had his third set ...

Posted
11/08/2018

I’m not saying this is it however:
Two days after our lb had his third set of jabs he started producing loose dirty nappies, I counted as previously he’d been going every 48 hours or so in between, he reached 20 in 24 hours, after two days I phoned the health visitor and she said if it made me feel better to see gp as it was during the really hot spell and they didn’t want him getting dehydrated. I decided to take him and they checked him over and he was fine in himself but to bring in a sample the next day. Two days later I got a call from them to ask some more questions because it turned out he had a strain of food-poisoning. Don’t know how as he was only 17 weeks at the time an ebf. They said keep an eye on him but by that time his nappies had calmed down.

Thank you for this. I think it's the sheer time it's lasting that is most strange and the fact that there are absolutely no other symptoms. I'm going to ask them to test a sample for us this week just for peace of mind.

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